Riddle Me

Cirque. 29. She/Her. Should probably be writing.

[pansyfemme]

you need to remember to blog with your pussy first and brain second

[cpericardium]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

I was not prepared

[mint-corset]

You know I read the "I was not prepared" and just still could not have possible guessed that follow up.

[tiktoks-repost]

[inviernodel95]

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[d4rkerthanbl4ck-deactivated2025]

This will never not be funny to me.

[bloodied-dagger]

[letitrainathousandflames]

Peer reviewed tags by @dark-whimsy

[natequarter]

if my brother was the king of england and he was 6ft+ you fucking bet i'd be yelling "how's the weather up there, your grace?" every time i make an appearance at court

[natequarter]

this is why edward iv executed his brother in 1478. don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise

[crabussy]

we all love dynamics that remind us of the moon and the sun but I am baffled by the lack of love for dynamics that are reminiscent of the moon and the EARTH.

[crabussy]

I am so full of life but you are the reason my tides have a rhythm. you are the reason my oceans are brimming with life. you are the reason I can see the light in myself even when it all seems dark and you are the reason my orbit is stable and my seasons make sense. do you see it

[fulgrims-big-naturals]

Moon has scars from meteors that would’ve otherwise hit us

[crabussy]

AOAOIUUHHH. NOBODY TALK TO ME

[depsidase]

[dykesynthezoid]

Will never not be obsessed w both Louis and Armand calling Daniel “boy” and it’s never lost on me that they both have the context to understand “boy” as a social caste in a way many people (esp white people) living today might not immediately recognize… I think the context w Louis is perhaps more readily obvious to modern people (understandably) but man the reality of the word “boy” is that its usage to indicate a power discrepancy really goes back to ancient history.

In Ancient Rome, you literally could not be referred to using the term for an adult male if you were enslaved. You would forever be called a boy; “puer;” regardless of age.

Boyhood in Ancient Rome is simultaneously a marginalized, romanticized, and even eroticized position. That romanticization of youth, of youthful masculinity in all its perceived contradiction, taken to its logical extreme in such a sternly patriarchal society. The puer delicatus archetype certainly didn’t suddenly disappear with Rome’s collapse; we can see how it endures through the Renaissance, just objectively. And I would say Marius acts almost as a physical representation for the influence certain Ancient Roman ideas continued to have on Renaissance Italy, in this context. Armand is someone who actively can never fully escape his casting into this role, (can even never physically grow beyond it in the books).

In Middle English, the word “boye/boi” is most typically used to describe a male servant. Its connotation has more to do with class than age. And I think many of us are aware how that idea was preserved in American slavery and the post-slavery treatment of Black men.

I think examples like these really help illuminate the ways in which “boyhood” has always been a distinct social class, and in some cases has even occupied what is essentially a third gender role, especially in strongly patriarchal and/or martial societies.

So when Louis and Armand call Daniel “boy,” well. They certainly mean it in one or two very specific ways. (Personally I think Louis is more likely to mean it in a disparaging way since that’s the only way he’s ever heard it used for him; meanwhile I think Armand is more likely to see it as something inherently vulnerable and even potentially worthy of veneration, even if it’s in a way that’s paternalistic).

[dykesynthezoid]

I honestly don’t mind that Armand was older in the show when he was turned bc it feels so tragically Antinous to me. Being in that age of passing from youth to true adulthood implies all sort of interesting things. If you’re someone for whom youth was fetishized, what is supposed to become of you once you grow beyond it? He can no longer be his maker’s beloved boy. Armand, in the headspace he was in, probably felt a kind of panic— That Marius’s hesitance to turn him would only result in him aging to the point Marius no longer wanted him to begin with. And this aging came without any of the actual benefits of adulthood— he’s enslaved, and then he’s also ill and infirm. There’s no autonomy, no authority, no agency that’s supposed to come with manhood. There’s only the no-longer-quite-boy, the not-thing. From object of desire to waste. Never the subject. Never the desirer.

[attackjester]

how it genuinely feels to have someone who agrees with your somewhat niche stances on a character

[airin-marine]

[waitingforthet]

you know you can just say words on the internet

[katanahime]

People have such a big problem with the concept of abusers loving the people they abuse

Both the depictions of

"This character is an abuser and therefore is incapable of real love toward the person they abuse" (I acknowledge they are abusive, and that makes them a monster)

and

"This character loves that other character so they can't possibly be abusing them" (I acknowledge they aren't a monster, and therefore they aren't abusive)

Are collectively the most harmful ideas to spread about abuse

Because the core concept (abusers can't love you or be good to you genuinely) is so connected to getting trapped an abusive cycle. They love them, they aren't always bad. It's a very defensive feeling. "I love them and they love me and you have to admit I'm a difficult person sometimes, so it's not what you think it is. They aren't like that. Not really."

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[transgender-dumpster-princess]

For me a big part of “sex work is work” is that sex work should be socially viewed as totally legitimate work. I should be able to put sex work on my resume. I should be able to lean on the skills and knowledge I gain in this field and have that experience be respected. Right now I have a gap in my resume. But I’m also consistently doing advertising, social media management, inventory, merchandising, customer service, upselling!!! I’m working self directed, I’m solely responsible for every aspect of my business. I deserve respect, fuck.